Isn't IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) considered web3? can't you use IFPS without cryptocurrencies?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
> can't you use IFPS without cryptocurrencies?
You can. And you should.
Cryptocurrency is a solution in search of a problem. Problem it purports to solve isn't something you can solve via software.
That problem being sending money wherever you want, which is eminently solvable with software (mostly because it is almost all software everywhere).
And, I'd even say it's three waves, the first being TBL semantic web, which predates bitcoin.
That's because last i checked (admittedly a couple years ago) their software was slow and ressource intensive. Which is quite the opposite of what you want for real-life network transfer software. Meanwhile stuff like syncthing seem to get bittorrent-like transfer just fine.
Dat/hypercore seamed less bloaty (again a while ago), i wonder what the solid projects in this area are currently.. (torrent-based network filesystems)
Web3 uses IPFS, the dependency tree is the wrong way around in your question.